Building and managing your employee training programs has become a lot easier with the modern training platforms we have in place today. However, designing and running the program accurately is still something the training manager is required to do.
Like most other things in today’s corporate setting, running a corporate training program is no mean feat. It requires strict adherence and back up to ensure that your employees register the things they were taught during the training. In this article, we look at some of the most important ways organizations can incorporate learning after a training program and improve the experience during it. Read the guidelines below for more information.
Supplement Training with Social Learning
All of us tend to learn better when we have friends to share our successes with, buddies to learn from, examples to follow and mentors to look up to in our midst. Social learning methodologies connect learners with one another so that they can share success stories. In-person meetings, forums, chat groups and videos of trainees sharing success stories online can be good techniques to incorporate the social aspect of learning in the training process. This social aspect can help improve the learning process and facilitate a smoother transfer of knowledge between all involved stakeholders.
Provide Refresher Courses
Trainees are often unable to remember the key learning points from a training session after it is over. The inability to remember key aspects of the training process often comes down to the lack of refreshers post the training session. Hence, it is necessary that you organize refresher sessions that help retain and build the importance of key sources of information from the session.
The refresher course should be simple and provide a coherent summary of all the learning concepts discussed. These refresher courses can be paired with problem solving sessions where employees solve problems related to what they just learnt.
Create Opportunities for Practice
Multiple research studies conducted in this regard have found the importance of repeatedly practicing what you have learnt to cement the information in your mind. Employees should be given a number of opportunities within the workplace to practice the skills they have learnt in their training session and to see how they perform in a real-life situation, with the pressure of expectations. These practice sessions can help improve performance and also help refresh the learning acquired during the session.
We at JS Benefits Group have worked with numerous clients to implement refresher courses after training sessions in the workplace. You can get in touch with JS Benefits Group immediately to discuss and devise a plan.
